Suspender-securing pin



(No Model.)

H. L; SHAVER. SUSPENDER SEGURING PIN.

No. 443,118. Patented Dec. 23, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

HENRY L. SHAVER, OF COHOES, NEW* YORK.

SUSPENDER-SECURING PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,118, dated. December 23, 1890.

Application filed December 14, 1889. Serial No. 333,732. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY L. SHAVER, of the city of Cohoes, county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a Combined Suspender-Button Loop and Sccuring- Pin, of which the foliowingis a specification.

My invention relates to an improved suspendenbutton loop that is arranged by construction to be used as a securing-pin, by which, when the suspender-button comes ott' the garnent, the button-loop is adapted to be pinned into the waistband of the pants to thus connect the suspender-loop with the latter without a button. It often occurs that by a sudden muscular movement of the bodyor extra effort made in lifting or stretching a suspender-button will be torn from its fastening so as to inconvenience the wearer, and it is to adapt the suspender-button loop to make a temporary connection with the pants without a button that is the Object of my in- Vention.

Acconpanying this specification to form a part ofit there is a Sheet of drawingzs con- Training' four figures illustrating ny inven` tion, with the same designation of parts by letter reference used in all of them. Of these illustrations, Figure 1 shows one of a pair of suspenders 'with button-loops Connecting the suspender with the pants by means of buttons. Fig. 2 shows one of the button-loops as conneoted to the waistband of the pants without a button. Fig. 3 is a perspective of a button-loop adapted to `pin into the waistband of the pants, and Fig. %1.- is a section taken through themetallic loop-strap into the eye-passage, of which the divided ends of the loop are inserted to connect the loop with the V suspender-button straps.

The several parts of asuspender thus illustrated are designated by letter reference, and the function of the parts is describcd as follows:

Theletter S designates the body strap of one of a pair of suspenders; B, the buckle; C, the button-strap clamp; E, the eye of the buttonstraps; S the latter, and I-I the clasp on the *lower end of the button-straps, made With the tubular passage P.

The letter L designates the button-loop, made with the wider upper loop part l' for its passage on over the button and the lower narrower loop part Z to draw on around the eye of the button where connected to the garment. This loop is made of wire, the ends E of which are made to approach each other in a straight line at the top, where they may be sprung apart for insertion within the opposite ends of the passage P, made in the clasp II. One of these ends and that indicated at 13 is made sharp, so that when abutton 12 comes off the loop may be spread apart, so as to be drawn out of the passage P with its sharpened end E forced through the waistband \V, as shown at Fig. 2, then turned in this pinned connection, so as to thread the lower loop part 2 into the garment, when the upper flat ends E E are sprung' apart and entered into the passage P of the clasp H, in which condition the loop is firnly secured to the fabric.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the clamp of a suspender-button strap, which clamp is made with a hinging tribe-form passage, of a wire button -loop having V-form sides with the lower end adapted to connect with an attached button, with the upper ends of the loop bent toward each other and adapted to be entered at opposite ends of the hinging-tube for connection, and one of the upper ends of the loop made to have a pin form and adap ted to be drawn from out the hinging-tube and threaded into a garment and then inserted in the hinging-tube,substantially as shown and described.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 21st day of October, 1889, andin the presence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

HENRY L. SHAVER.

\Vitnesses CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, N. E. IIOGAN. 

